Film Focus:
Gettysburg


Director: Ronald Maxwell
Cast: Tom Berenger, Jeff Daniels, Martin Sheen


Books About the Battle of Gettysburg

Regimental Strengths at Gettysburg, by John W. Busey & David G. Martin. Gateway Press, 1982.

Gettysburg: The Final Fury, by Bruce Catton. Easton Press, 1986, 1974.

Gettysburg: The Confederate High Tide, by Champbell Clark. Time-Life, 1985.

The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command, by Edwin B. Coddington. Scribner, 1984, 1968.

Gettysburg: A Journey in Time, by William A. Frassanito. Scribner, 1975.

Longstreet's Assault: Pickett's Charge--the Lost Record of Pickett's Wounded, by Donald J. Frey. Burd Street, 2000.

The First Day at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership, edited by Gary W. Gallagher. Kent State Univ. Press, 1992. Followed by The Second Day at Gettysburg (1993) and The Third Day at Gettysburg and Beyond (1994).

Lee's Real Plan at Gettysburg, by Troy D. Harman. Stackpole, 2003.

The Cavalry at Gettysburg: A Tactical Study of Mounted Operations during the Civil War's Pivotal Campaign, 9 June-14 July, 1863, by Edward G. Longacre. Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1993, 1986.

The U.S. Army War College Guide to the Battle of Gettysburg, edited by Jay Louvas & Harold W. Nelson. Harper & Row, 1987, 1986.

Gettysburg: The Long Encampment, by Jack McLaughlin. Appleton-Century, 1963.

Gettysburg, July 1, by David G. Martin. Combined, 1995.

35 Days to Gettysburg: The Campaign Diaries of Two American Enemies, by Mark Nesbitt. Stackpole, 1992.

The Gettysburg Campaign: June-July, 1863, by Albert A Nofi. Combined Books, 1993.

Gettysburg, by William C. Oates and Frank A. Haskell. Bantam, 1992, 1905.

Gettysburg: Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hill, by Harry W. Pfanz. Univ. of North Carolina, 1993.

Gettysburg: The Second Day, by Harry W. Pfanz. Univ. of North Carolina, 1987.

Gettysburg: The First Day, by Harry W. Pfanz. U of NC, 2001.

Pickett's Charge in History and Memory, by Carol Reardon. Univ. of North Carolina, 1997.

Gettysburg, by Stephen W. Sears. HM, 2003.

Firestorm at Gettysburg: Civilian Voices, by Jim Slade and John Alexander. Schiffer Military/Aviation History, 1998.

They Met at Gettysburg, by Edward J. Stackpole. Eagle Books, 1956.

Pickett's Charge: A Microhistory of the Final Attack of Gettysburg, July 3, 1863, by George R. Stewart. Houghton-Mifflin, 1987, 1959.

Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage, by Noah Andre Trudeau. HarCol, 2002.

High Tide at Gettysburg, by Glenn Tucker. Morningside, 1993, 1958.

The Cavalry Battle that Saved the Union: Custer vs. Stuart at Gettysburg, by Paul D. Walker. Pelican, 2002.

Gettysburg: Day Three, by Jeffrey D. Wert. S&S, 2001.

Gettysburg 1863: Campaign of Endless Echoes, by Richard Wheeler. Plume, 1999.

Witness to Gettysburg, by Richard Wheeler. Meridian, 1989, 1987.


Books on the Personalities at Gettysburg


Meade of Gettysburg, by Freeman Cleaves. Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1991.

Lee the Soldier, edited by Gary W. Gallagher. Univ. of Nebraska, 1996.

To Gettysburg and Beyond: The Parallel Lives of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and Edward Porter Alexander, by Michael Golay. Crown, 1994.

General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend, by Lesley J. Gordon. Univ. of North Carolina, 1998.

Winfield Scott Hancock: A Soldier's Life, by David M. Jordan. Indiana Univ. Press, 1996, 1988.

American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General, Dan Sickles, by Thomas Keneally. Talese, 2002.

Pickett, the Leader of the Charge, by Edward Longacre. White Mane, 1995.

General John Buford, by Edward Longacre. Combined, 1995.

The Memoirs of Henry Heth edited d by James L. Morrison, Jr. Greenwood, 1974.

What Death More Glorious: A Biography of General Strong Vincent, by James H. Nevins & William B. Styple. Belle Grove, 1997.

Toward Gettysburg: A Biography of John F. Reynolds, by Edward J. Nichols. Penn State Univ., 1958.

Conceived in Liberty: Joshua Chamberlain, William Oates and the American Civil War, by Mark Perry. Viking, 1997.

Sickles the Incredible, by W. A. Swanberg. Scribner, 1956.

American Heritage History of the Battle of Gettysburg, by Craig Symonds. HarCol, 2001.

Bold Dragoon: The Life of J.E.B. Stuart, by Emory M. Thomas. Harper & Row. 1986.

Robert E. Lee: A Biography, by Emory M. Thomas. Norton, 1995.

In the Hands of Providence: Joshua L. Chamberlain & the American Civil War, by Alice Rains Trulock. Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1992.

General James Longstreet: The Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier, by Jeffry D. Wert. Simon & Schuster, 1993.


Miscellaneous


Hallowed Ground: A Walk Around Gettysburg, by James M. McPherson. Crown, 2003.

Ghosts of Gettysburg, by Mark Nesbitt. Thomas, 1991. Followed by three more volumes.

Gettysburg: Memory, Market & an American Shrine, by Jim Weeks. Princeton UP, 2003.

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, by Garry Wills. Simon & Schuster, 1992.


The Killer Angels Trilogy


The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara. Ballantine, 1984, 1974.

Gods and Generals, by Jeff Shaara. Ballantine, 1996.

The Last Full Measure, by Jeff Shaara. Ballantine, 1998.


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